anterior cruciate ligament tear

After her successful recovery from a torn ACL, one Texas high school soccer player decided that other athletes shouldn't have to deal with the same emotional pain she felt while going through my injury, so she started a website to provide emotional support, information and advice to other athletes trying to bounce back from similar sports-related injuries.

ACL tears occur in a variety of sports, says Lyle Micheli, M.D.,
Director, Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, and
require surgical repair as soon as possible to avoid the arthritic
changes associated with a delay in reconstructive surgery and,
hopefully, the need for more surgery later. While a failure rate of 20% is not
uncommon, the failure rate at Children's is much lower, around 5%.

Soccer has a higher injury rate than many contact/collision sports such
as field hockey, rugby, basketball, and football, with players younger
than age 15 at higher relative injury risk compared with older players,
concludes a clinical report in the journal Pediatrics.

Women and girls are more prone to ACL injuries than men and boys but the risk can be reduced if athletes perform warm-up, stretching, strengthening, plyometric, and sport-specific agility exercises before sports.